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i r 1 sufficient proof. For his part, he was convinced I that the Klieg (God bless him !) could not do better than, have a 8311 in the chief command of his army. It would be well before coining to a decision on the subje& before them, for the House to consider, that if the% agreed to the resolution proposed iw the Right Hon. Gentleman on the floor (Mr-Bankes), they'would remove froM the service of the State one of ifs most able, and distinguished servantst merely because his mistress had been engaged in four tcan saelions of, which be • had no knowledge. The 'light Hon. Gentleman's amendment went to state, 'that it would be prudent in his Royal Highness to resign ; but he would say that it was not prudent to the House of CemMons to listen to a popular out cry. They ought not to be moved by external cir cumstances, which naturally arose from what had- , fallen out in the course o&' the inquiry, and! the . cry of corrupt i on b e i ng ra i se d on p o i nts not untie': the cognizance of the Houee. • - The idea .of thou sands squandered on women of an infamous des- •, • eription ; thousands earned by the sweat of peoples brows, was a very natural topic for declamation and • popular impression, but was the House to adopt peoceedines on such a clamour, and to say that his ;Royal Highness was guilty 'of corruption, because an outcry of this kind .was raised, to determine that - lie was unfit to hold the chief-command of -the army ? Without such a popular clamour, no man, in that House would have • thought that this was a Proper course. Let them then speak out manfully, nod give their own opinions without bias; and 'as none could say that from this clamour they were in; elut e d to believe the' Duke of York unfit for the command, never let them recommend a measure for his dismissal. He concluded by thanking the House for the attention with which they had listen ed to him during the time he had occupied in stating Iris opinions on this important question.. Mr. LEACH said, that he could not concur either i . with the oi iginal by Address or the Amendment pro posedthe Right Honourable / Gentleman (Mr. Rinkes). He could not agree with them, because they neither convicted nor acqeitted the Cotemander in. Chief of the corruption with which he was charged, or of the knue ledge of the existence of corrupt practices, and yet they addressed to remove Lim from the chief 'command of the army. He , would beg Leave to take a short view of the question as it appeared 'to him, and to state-to the House the material• points which operated on his, Hind, to the complete exclthion "of such a deduc . lion as .either, that the Duke of York had a corrept• participation or knowledge of these transaetionse— l'he Duke of York could not he convicted, but upon the testimony of Mrs. Clarke; a testimony which • in his opinion, could not for a moment be Credited, where her interest was involved, •He would :thew first, that her evidence was oontradided by other and unimpeachable witnesses. redly, that she, in metier instances, contradicted herself; and esily, that her testimony, was irreconcileable truth and proba• Why: In the first place then, she was contradia ed by Mr. It. Knight, who related a conversation that passed between Mrs. Clarke and . him ;in Sep *ember, only a feW weeks before he was called to the :Lari and which, Irvin' he nature, could not he sepe e Posed to escape the reco:iettion of either the one or the Other of the parties. This was a direa and :Ina pehle euittradiCtion, as would be seen by reverting Ik) tli9 minutes of evide nce . (H ere the Hon. Gent. read Part or the, evidenceuf Mr R. 1 Knight and Mrs. Cle e m rke in N o . 1 . elihe • -1. Gen tleman minuses.) e lee _ouourebete (Mr. Whitbread), whose brilliant speech had last night made enel --a an impression Ott the Hou,e, seemed to think that there was' no cone tradidion in this, because Mrc Clarke had de nied that she inten4ed to 'expose: the Doke of York in the way how done, 'which Mr. It. Knight un derstoood, and stated to the House t 6 'be a general assertion, 'that' she' would exPese the Duke. He sh . ewed that such was not the true beerihg of the P am oges, and that •the contradi<<liay wai'poSitive and irre cu neileithle.. 'They were Ale!, 'dikeEtly at issue on . the point, whether Mrs. Clarke deiited the transac ,t_ion to be kep t seeret f rom the Duke of York or not. , Ihe next contradielion he had to notice' was, that bee tweet Mrs. Clarke and 'the Hon. Gentleman who beought forward these charges. From a peiusal of the evidence (which he read to the House) it ap peared that Mrs. Clarke in her examination en the Wedneeilay e stated, in the first instance, that she had s een Mr.Wardie uti t lie precielieg day (Tuesday), but imo nediatelyrecolleeting to what sect) an tiCk HOW iedg- Illent would expose her,un being asked if she was sure of that ? she (tiredly replied; that she had not seen hint that day, end that she had been at home all that' dn. le opposition to this, it was. in the evidence of the lion. Gentleman stated, that he saw her three times d ureligthatday—the first time in the morning, about 'or ie. , o'clock, when he rode out with tier in her carriages..-again, about three o'clock, when he staid with her Mesta halt an hour--and a third at 'night. Thus, on Wednesda) , this witness posaively denied • , a lad, which had taken place beyond the possi. • lathy of being forgotten. utt, the preceding day.— ' The tic et coneedietion appeared in her testimony contrasted with that of Mr; Ellis, Not onlyelid she, state that she never knew Mrs. Favery by any other amts, but also that she never visited Iter. at 'Mr. • ; whereas it was clear, tom the testimony of T hat very respeolable witness, that she not only re , eornenended Favery to hiM as a servant, 'under the fame of Faequhar, but that she visited her so Ire quently thathe viuppesed they were needy related to each other. .From all these circumstance-se he Coul d not think flea Mre. Clarke was a 'witness to 11 - ejeVed'ori any point Where her own interest was , concerned..He had now to state where her eeidence • , was contradidory in itself, and in - this he would, not trouble the House with more than one poiut.— ' In the' case of •Dowler she had derritd that she bad seen that person more than twice since •his return from the Continent, concealing from the coenteittee t hat she had* met anti slept : with him hotel. It Was sa i d, a eight at Reid's that she might naturally desire not to mentioh thise but was it necessary for her to de by having seen liirte at-all ? a matter copnthed most intimately with the evidence, and caValated to give • le ' lin n m ,Y• a value Whicledid not pieperly .beiong to it. The third part. of her teethnony on which he tied hi comment was, its utter improbebility. She asserted, that the Duke of York told her she had , more ietieence than the (-Queen, ano that if she was 'clever she needed.. not ,to want for money. Was Mete ILI the cotietry pme the bulto of••V'ork So base as to utter a sr-wheel-it of this inn., It could not the case; and nu 11130 inc e. • (0 ), tending to the cbaratler of a Gentleman, could have mender in. Chief ; aryl was i tuaWy disadvantageous cloak. If the buke'of York had• been so openly -to the country. this was not the business be lost to every sense of shame, and so grossly corrupt, fore the House, which was to, inqUire if the tom. instead of the four solitary, cases they had now be-' mender in-Chief had httn. guided by undue. infit, • fore them, their table woOld have groaned with ex-* euce, which did not appear in. the case of French, amides of Corruption. The. next thing for the House who seemed curiously favoiared by Being employed to :do was, to see if they could trace et tooti% ein in -a transaction by tvhich he lust •As for the Mrs. Clarke for her evidence against the Duke of exchange between Colonels Brooke anti Knight, as York ; and here it was that the conversation with the Duk%pf York Nies nisi conceded with it; he Mr. Knight, and the letters to Mr. Adam, •clearly would pass it :over. :Ile case 01.-.. Carter seemed demonstrated that she had threatened to expose the also to be diiposed of by the House. There was no Duke, openly to disgrace, to accomplish her own : proof of: the fad acid he did not believe that. his purposes, unless he complied with her demands. Royal Hignneis knew that the. Samuel Carter pro- There were also homei corroborations of the in- moted by him, and recommended by Lieutenant Sot credibility of Mrs; Clarke s evidence, on the import- ton, was the same person whom he had seen behind ance .of whate had justly been called a mysterious • Mrs. Clarke's chair or her carriage. Mrs. Clarke note. This noteappeared to him 'to •he the hand- appeared to have dwish to serve tins person'; and it writing of . the Duke of York ; and he could' easily i was therefore likely would conceal any thing calcu beco.unt for the.mistake in his Royal Highness's mind, lated •to dtfeat his promotion, end particularly such that coupling this notice with the charge attached to. circumstances as the;;e. Thus, nothing was corrobo it in Sanden's evidence, hiS. Royal Highness at once rated that Mrs. .Clarke had urged against the Drake would deny ever having written it.. But what did of York,' andhe was ready to come to.a vote when this note prove ? It Might have been written' With . ever it might be put, directly: negativing the chargeof the mbst innocent intentions;` and, .as no proof of bermotives,oruf any knowledge of corrupt practices. corrupt motives in anyother case was brough home But there was another point on ,which he had some to the Puke of fork, it -was but fair to consider this hesitation in expressing his opinion. He could as written IWith ;no blamable design. With 'regard not see any grounds for . Parliamentary interference to the evidence of Miss Taylor, he believedehat the at all in this matter, or what right they bad to vote' whole of the conversation site stated herself to have addresses or resolutions on the subject'. 'No man heard might be an invention ; but at the samestime would say that they had such aright, upon an ab be allowed, that it was not improbable that such a strait principle of one' More Criale being committed. conversation might really; pass. MissTaylot was called This was,-then; a question clement and quality; and for the sole purpose of fixing •on his Royal fitgli- the extent so snail, that he could not think there dens the Duke of York the knowledge of corrupt was a fair grotind for their interference.. He lametit,..• practices. He would not enter into her designs, but j ed,- as.every one. tunst do, that sac!r- a connettion only inquire if there was enough to sew that slid 'had ever existed, and such an exposure, taken place. was so much influenced by Mrs.' Clarke, 'as to give Bin this was not a Court of sloral Censure; but of a coloOring to the testimony, which rendered it very Judicial Inquiry into the effeA on the official coudu(t different in meaning from what it really was. On of the Cummander in Chief. He knew of no mode of this matter he begged leave to call the attention of better performing their duty as Members of that • this House to the evidence of this Lady, who recol , - House, than to examine the evideece carefully, and leo ted so minutely what had passed tour years ago, to ptonotinee a verdict according to their own. judg es to what had passed on the same subject in a more meets. 'lf they were . influenced by, any 'opinion unit material point of view w ithin three weeks of her ex- of doors, they were'departing from their duty, and .amination. In pa g e 472 of the Minutes were the it w 34 a libel to say that any gen:m:ll sense had been following - questions anti answers: , impressed upon the public mind •in.this grear guess 'Q. Are you sure these were the words ?—A. These were Lion, • The public well knew that they had the eaee, the. Words (tile words used by the Dolt,: of York in tS incorredly before them. They well knew that Q. Did you ar any time ;afterwards have any communrca much depended oa the eharatter of the witnesses— lion with Mrs. 'Clarke, relative to the observation ,the Duke of York upon French's business' . Not 'till they well knew. that much serious consideration was ' within.l hese tikree wefts or a mouth. j doe before aiming to a decision ,on this painful What was , ite conversition you had at that thee.--A. She asked Ine if I recollected the Duke of York's ineutionilfg 91.10. il 1 i on,0 n, and • fi e was _persuaded that all • that was Colima French's nttnts ILI p:::4CMX. • illSt and rational was to be emvatd from the pub- Q. Dad any- ruin ; ; else pass oti that occasion ?—A.. I im. lie mind, and that they would sanian what he had, meuratelyrecollectvd the circumstance, and told her. said. Q. Did Airs: Clarke rilake aily reply t.i resat observation, • an what,?,,-A. I 4° "A't eL9lle ‘ t ' Lord Formstosre said lie had to rise be- Q. Do jiin at ail re .0 lest any further conversation that , but was now glad nu opptsrtun y hed been al i. passed At the.tadre when site Puke et York node that obsco. : fore, vation relative to .Colonel French's Levy, besides . what you forded him of following the Hon. (;2ntletwin Who have already given in evidence ?-A. No, nothing at all upon lied hest sat down; after putting the vestion on a the sbject. fair tooting. , Before, "however, he adverted to what Pare 274. —Q. Can you recolled,'what passe4 with Mrs . . (..itafke three we!:km :lA° upon Vs.: o,:casuin of this converse. had Allen from that HootOurtible Gentleman, lie n rest - recut% Cot. I. rend'? --A. No; nothig. ' iflust otfter'i few remarks on •seejral Matters which' Q. NO ..at expression or circurnmuiee that, passes three . weeks ago with Mrs., Clarke I—A. No, Ide eel ee . e n c ee had came from some of The • Honourable and Right any. Honourable -GCllltelnen . V.• 11() hid It'lll'ered • their Was it possible that Miss Taylor could have forgot : sentiments' ' on this SubjeCt. - There could be no every ci'reutnstance relating to a transaction, at that doubt of the rtlgularity of their - proceedings; and time bet - Anne 'se . interesting, while the remembered' •in this respe& he ,lolly agreed witlia Right - 'Hon. what passed four years before, when it was not at Centkmau on the floor (Mt. Bankes). With re all recommuded to notice by any particular cause. i speet to the lefluenee of peblie opinion, le could not Ile could not help believing*ukin Mis'sTaylor's own . understand upon what ground the Resolutions of his testimony, that she,-was iethiended by Mrs. Clarke, Hon. Friend(Mr. Wardle), or of the Right lion. to gi.ve-a colour to expressions Which did MA Odong Gentlethan, eotlit: ,be sepposed to be calculated 40 en..thew. e nd . whieti . e lotse. is . e t tie sherredele hi s _ . fli4t that opihion.. . He 'called on the House torneet Royal ' Highness the • Couifiiander. in Chief. An." - iii - eiFfeefitiv'veutittifFiitii - tiereilliidgiiient,ind would , . • Hon. Gentleman bad last night gone into many pre: be the last man in', the House to 1),.! carried away by suruptions, which he contee4edhote l upou the case the - popular tide. Gentlettlen - Wellicl reeofteet that he The first . e as„ ihat the expenciiture of the establish- ' bad stoolfor Nord against the popular feeling, and ex anent at Gioucester-place 'greatly exceeded the sum posed himself to public animosity on the oecassion. 'allowed by his Royal Highness, and therefore he An Hon. Gentleman had attacked his Hon. Friend as must Kaye .suspected that - the overplux was gain- lif he hid been Modred in this im proper, ed by mproper ed -by ..some - other means in , other quarters, But.: ! motives. He denied that such a eharee was just, and how stood the Matter ? . The Duke of York had been ,; was sorry to find any Hon. tl'entlenlin going out of ni the habit of sending 'meney drawn from his 1 his wily to hazard such ae opinion. Surely if ever banker's, .toMrs e Clarke, which, though it did not i there was an instance, in which an individual was , admit ot•legal proof, he stated ,to amount ,to 55001.' `.solely guided by pure patricti:sin; the most virtuous and that he also personalty tiequently gave her sums : motive - .. 5, and. an anxious desire to overtern abuses, to a considerable amount, which he wOuld take at : it was in the preeent, Gracious Heav,ens 1 when it 20001. Besides this, tic wine and houiehold furni- 1 was acknowledged on all hands that the ~Duke of tore, were provided by his Rey,ii Highness at an ex- i i York ' was guilty of corrupt connivance -:-(Loud pence of upWards 0f„,1.6 - ,0001. besiOes the 10001-. per 1 cries 4 s't no na.")- - -of Undue influeoce. , He mtist . ann. regularly 11110‘04.' Theestablislituent was sup'. I wtnider at -such an opinion - coming' trout an Hon. ported partly .by twine) , and partly by credit. ' This ; ‘Getuletua 4, hintellsp nolch ocetr)lo=l and adxious in was proved by the es,isienee to by the case in I 'nverth ElJl.%itig aba,es. It the lionse pursued the • the• present : instance, for the sale of, furniture clue now given them by hi s s thou. Friend, who he (he believed,' exclusive of the house) amounted to trustedi t would always'be rernetilbetM, had 'origi -44001. which was allotted to the' payment of debts, ; nally brought forward this question, they would do incurrecl - during the time the establishMent was more cowards saving the country, and . defending, it going on, and with the'ssool. froth the • Banker's, from foreign (Cies, than , any . other in the empire. and the 20001. in nao:ley,- rout fated to the :Stieo of Another point he muSt notice in an 'Hon. Gentle; 12,4001. hcing 60001. a year fio;s: the Dukeol,York, man, who, at the end of the e\.sai,inatio . o, had call, for the support . of Abe expenditure at G,loucester- ed on Officers to give evidence, a.: aigotnents iHonourable'fa place. - ThHonourable ‘GO•oticinJu had stated an Your: et the Duke of \ fle neither admitted or other, winch he eiillud a retnarlia'ole' Presumption, denied the fact of hisgeed milietry maaagement, bet which was, the coincidence between time :ttine . thc whez her it was prt,vd'or not, it had niithincr; to do expensii l t. establiittpeot WAS formed, and the vow- . tt ith. the ease. If they had ititteeled to punish the .tnencentent of the' c'n-i.ttpt pisa,':ties', Tins interter. Bake oh York,. such evidence Might avert it ; but it once ivas fair enough, had it risentrue, but the easier it :id certaitdy"ou concern with the merirs of the Ciise. 't • solution was to be Inond in tinr=, that Mrs. Clarke co ~ !d Various objedions, somewhat of a technical nature, not have commenced these praetices before her lltitig 11:iii Pt:en urged against his Hon, Friend's address by , established under the protection of the ConimaUder in th. l 4 e.ht -Hun Gentleman opposite (the Chanc e silor. Chief, which gave her the apvearmace of i;nluence of the Exchequer), and it was said that he* had and power. She could not lt•,ld 'out her Wiles till . made a charge of eamuptiott, and flinChed from her living with his Royal 'Highness gave a colour , bringing it to a decisive aye or no. He knew no t() leer. inetensiens; Another ikesuinptioil was, thine ot. such a charge, and looked to die Journals that as she, asked hsvotirs ha .sirangt an d h Uit•. - and Records. of the Honsi_ for it it: vain. die, was eo - charge ot cOrruptioh mele, tied three who asser ed lot her friends, ins Royal flg itisess hitlit. baVC . .51.1spe4t0d : that ske was re‘vetided tor her eitertines.• this, travelled out 01 the JourruTh. They would • fitly find that the committee hid been appointed to This point had *beets already so ably retnied, that inquire into the conducttil the Cominauder in Chief; hewoeldnot trouble the , Hense- upon the 4ohjett. Eat, after all these Presumptions were g,Ol rid'of, and. din their decision they talked of cluarges of cor , . they were told, thatthe a aj oes wire suc h as to . minion, it would Lie frotri that' decision altnie it could hgreatter be kisown lhar . soch a charge 'had been leave an impres,ion agamst the Duke of York. made. The Right Hen IG,ehtlenian bad also alisad In French's levy the cortoptioti' was 6.i-tient; het did it follow that his Roy:11 I lighness the Duke of. t d to cooler beads, 'tii Itfri, Mg (united the Asldres of York knew. ei that currupt ion ? Woold not his it 113 11".-Frie14 lit kid at all units di , fiketl , suell itisinuations which' were thrown out to iejere, where teetion fur this ' WOlll4l accoont for - ally part,Ality • aogible cleirgeS could .he brought forward. I.le towards those she recommended, without ascrib - • 001 ing it to corrupt Motives*? But he denied the knew nut who averp meant by cooler heads, but this he 'knew, that ii was his Hots. Friend's Motion, the fact itself , and froth reading" the evidence upon trio:Deist he produced it to the House, and it was im it,' concluded that the D , Ake of . York was per, . fectly uncouscioos of the I,•ititetiet: of these prat- PIT" , he- nit it kIY irregolareto' - apply -- Jo ft any tices. As for what had been said Of evety man in ttuen lulus as had heen,throeu out.. His approved, And would/vote tin . it ; but it it did, no i ge fin enough,. this levy t:osting 1501.• it .vas founded in a calcula-: csuld net die Hen. Goinlernarr set LiredertCaCy to OA) (an false: grotinds ; the whole or great part of flit, the puke of York,:atsd twins Maje Sty, us Inca dietat levy being ineurkd at , first,. anti might as I;..iirly oe argued when the first Man was enlisted. that tic cost ed the leas, harsh rucid tor . his if iii Frlend's.adep -7or 80001 -. . - - The issttitlaf - thiS-levy - proved cedy•that (um ? . Whyhoulti•• he have 1 11 . 1 1 1 n " ',':ltal and 110.7 n had not aosweredthe"exptchtion .,, of tho e uu ,.. uoura'l4 I.elilgs, by-stat, mait;r., ) trongl y ~:15 in his opinion they were proven' to exist 11 it d'al go to the full extentati the proof, he sueeeettei from motives of delicacy,, and not &,o o a veee „ evidence., „ With respect To the dhar;-..;5, in . nion, that the; Commander in C: ,i et: :11e.e.te ! il see., ff mistress to carry on a corrupt. trac, in eete..-1 corruptly participated, was completely made otie was proved imy Clarke's evidence:: In inent on ing this person, he begged to state, that he o“trIonli. ed, and diSpised the imputations 00-m1.111e:1%M, :red was not conscious of any motives of the bcrt as cribed to him. The'Noble Lord here took a revieev of what was said by Mr. Burton on , the head of the evidence of accomplices, and from a precedent in Leech's Reports, and from the nature ;if die ease, . contended that no other description of witnesses could possibly speak certainly to such .fa&ts. evidence, of accomplices, he contended, though .ought to-be received with''Caution, was not to entirely overlooked, as he conceived the argument ef the Learned, Judge td be. If they excluded the tes timony of accomplices, they excluded all restimoey; cut oft' all proof, and the House conld never be able to come to a decision. With respea to the testimony of Mrs. Clarke in particular, he malaained that it was not liable to the accusatioteof being produced bj , revenge and hatred, as stated by several Ileneurehle. Gentlemen. He agreed with his 1 - 1 - 4. Friend (M:. Whitbread), that it was a strange way of evincing malice, to burn all the documents' and Keel - sof faCta - which could rifle& the party and do service to the prosecutor ; , and yet Mrs. Clarke hi:el dour; this, which might probably eccount for there Only four cases now befornthe House. If she had kept a:I" her papers, theretimight have beim ten ttronsaud, of which the documental were now destroyed, i and the metnury passed Away. 1n less •opueon it was inarvellons, not that there were so let(' cases, but that there were so many as fit e fully ma , le It had been stated over and over,again, its allusive to his Hon. Friend, that he WASIIO.O tfte p 1 ::I(lppi in this basiness, bur brotight forward .by. s. Chu , whose agent he was. This was stated from belief, , not from lertowledge, and t eaet was precisely the reverse. His Honoureble Frietid,was nut led by the blandishments of Mrs. Clarke; he had got clees to, these:transactions, which went a certaitritegth, and heleund out that he could not go etriferther with • out Mrs. Clarke. It was nut so eev to lay held Of, her; and to get any thingeim of her. flieaSserted, that Mrs. Clarke came terward as his lion. Friend's witness, and, has she said, unwillingly, whieleirom his heart, he believed. • His Hen. Friend spoke to her first, and she did not come opeuenouthed. e — Being brought for*ard, what kited of t witnesa was she? he appealed to the House that forgetihlpe.4 was not her fault ; she brought out things unawares taia a which were afterwards found to be truth from tl‘e production of letters, they suppesed had been burnt by' Mr. Nicholls, and others supposed to have neve destroyed by Sanden. When. she first talked of Clavering and O'Mara, lie and every one disbelieved, her; but the matter was afterwards proven--she ter gets Tonyn's case and states,, that atter reedinge he newspaper account of it, she knows no mere line before. It she had conspired, would she have : tent thus ?_ ,No ; ahewoold have come :arward, and teed, '• in my bed last night rreeolletied this . case which I had forgot before. It was the S3llll with regard to the note, which she stated site hail forgot ; but w he t , she saw it ? and that it was the hatta-writing,of t h e Duke of Yolk, she ssid I have been wrong ;it must be so." She had seta in private to him, tit t stie cud not recollect giv ing Senclerr that note, end she imagined he had stolen it tram her. lee& ne ; az coutlua, he, from his cteescieuret believiet trial , capable of doing .so,. that he did do so, and he as tirMly believed ' that the note was in the : letrid writing of the'Deke of York. It was unaceou t e s . ble to consider it as ct forgery, which b o r e . its 'every point the stamp ni truth— e ollice rpor---.t!)1 - water-mark 003 —the feigned name—the God bless , and the slur at tottotll, whic h 'woura have induced a person forging to have - written it over loin, rather than let that go, were all indithit ablip Iproofs of its authenticity. The evidence tit , General Brownridre, Colonel Gordon, Mr. Ad ele , and General Hope, ?roved the same thing e evith ' thtiir partiality (he did not mean improper) for the ,other side.' The House had been disgraced by e " rn ie n e oe of other witnesses on thitisubjea—fer whe,-would take upon them tejnage a canoe Merely from a•serap of writing, when they knew how mei ) , different timings operated to create a trifling del',•,,e ence, such as' pen 3, ink, paper, temper of the bAy, and a hundred other reasons. l The - Noble Lord leer went into the case of the exchange, and argned,"th ' there,was tiocontradititon het ween Mrs. Clarke' an , l Mr, knight. That it tnieht hsevery natural though she co r innumicated these Matters to time 1.).t.i1e ! herself, to wish them not to come tehis ears freem a third tetarter, which would expose her to the charge of being incautious, And this reconciled their em deuce, ,ax to a desire exple'ssed to have the husineso kept secret. As , for the -bi'COllll'alleaed centr•idie tion,,',,natuely, her threats to ttxpose theeDoke of 'York, hr also contended, that' a 4 Mr. Knight Wilti a Very reluetaot witness, and indignant at Mrs. Chile., lie:might give a stronger interpretation to her lets page than it' stridly bpre him out in doing. "%Jet ; ther of the coetradidions which had been anti:let ! ed to Mrs. Clarke related to the statements she etas made to examinations concerning her hush:w.f. Mr. Stower had been called to prove that he hue e I Mr. Clarke to be a. Stone-mason . but , howet er ft l might be established, the contradiaket in • . Clarke's evidence wait' not of sufficient twigtl;tw: , .., shakt: the credit of her testimony. He did tea hno what tO, make of the toestioni put to tier ; ta ut aoM them he did suppose Mrs. Clarke's huseand to , he.bot of low origin ; but on, i nqu i ry he timed I,e ,was of a very wealthy family, end that his COI/ - tions were in the :highest degree respeCiable. tle c ,u1;1 state to the House th at, so far ( r em beio,; circumstanced as he- had imagined, be had heard Mr. Clarke kept a coaela and fear; and lived in'a Vle corresponding magniticenc. CHANest.t.olt of 111 C EXCURQUER Said, Cvit a his Lordship merely stated this (ni his own know !edge, it should not' be likened to, illjt could' not ne considered as evidence. Lord FOI.KSTONE•33Id, he did: not state That it evidepce, but he wishd to bt , ...‘ allowed tfl tact to the . With respe4t to lie! !,.; !-- proitNited herself as Alm. Dowk!t, oh hie',, charge 11:41.been grootided v • 1, 1 (.1 only beeh proved lo evicit!),/ (:;:illed b 1 that_ id3uto, but cotli !1!--7